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METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.



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a: serial-killer ~
b: mythical-vampire

Writer: GARY C. KING --Date: July 4, 2025

a: compassion ~
b: an-overflowing-reservoir

Writer: Dalai Lama --Date: July 3, 2025

a: compassion ~
b: seed

Writer: Chandrakirti --Date: July 3, 2025


a: compassion ~
b: a-baton-in-relay-race

Writer: Dacher Keltner --Date: July 3, 2025

a: catalyst ~
b: a-tunnel-through-a-mountain

Writer: Not Stated --Date: July 2, 2025

a: a-good-man ~
b: a-good-sword

Writer: thedreamist: --Date: July 1, 2025


a: the-collagen ~
b: sticky-glue

Writer: Mary --Date: July 1, 2025

a: carrying-capacity ~
b: filling-up-a-bucket

Writer: Not Stated --Date: July 1, 2025

a: tight-junction ~
b: a-zipper

Writer: Not Stated --Date: July 1, 2025


a: why-getting-a-chinese-visa ~
b: seinfeld-ordering-soup

Writer: Rp --Date: July 1, 2025

a: accounting ~
b: flossing

Writer: Elizabeth Wellington --Date: July 1, 2025

a: dna-replication ~
b: a-train-track

Writer: Dr. Barry Starr --Date: July 1, 2025


a: mitosis ~
b: making-a-clone-of-yourself

Writer: Ms. Kamper --Date: July 1, 2025

a: tsunami ~
b: a-high-tide

Writer: John A. Torres --Date: June 30, 2025

a: respiratory-system ~
b: a-vital-river

Writer: Lawrence Martin, M.D., FACP, FCCP --Date: June 30, 2025


a: insomnia ~
b: an-execution

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 29, 2025

a: centrosome ~
b: twins-leaving

Writer: Jama Willbanks, MS, NREMT - P --Date: June 29, 2025

a: centrosome ~
b: platform-9-75

Writer: bredubt --Date: June 29, 2025


a: space-time ~
b: a-rubber-sheet

Writer: Randall Munroe --Date: June 29, 2025

a: enzyme ~
b: woolen-glove

Writer: Dubasi Govardhana Ra --Date: June 28, 2025

a: speed-of-sound ~
b: speed-of-your-car

Writer: Dr. Louis Leblond --Date: June 28, 2025


a: speed-of-sound ~
b: plowing-snow-with-a-straight-board

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 28, 2025

a: looking-at-his-paintings ~
b: looking-at-a-bed-of-roses

Writer: lucretiagermanica --Date: June 27, 2025

a: motivation ~
b: steam

Writer: Mark A. Copeland, 2009 --Date: June 26, 2025


a: alabaster-skin ~
b: marble-statue

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 25, 2025

a: temporal-lobes ~
b: gas-peddle

Writer: Robin Bernhard, LCSW, MEd, Sandy Rakowitz, Jessica Eure, MEd, EdS --Date: June 25, 2025

a: parietal-lobe ~
b: parent

Writer: Ms. Hoerth's 6th Grade Science Class --Date: June 25, 2025


a: gap-year ~
b: rungs-on-a-ladder

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 25, 2025

a: golgi-apparatus ~
b: seniors-and-teacher-in-high-school

Writer: Ms. Cerletty's class --Date: June 23, 2025

a: unrequited-love ~
b: waiting-for-an-airplane-at-a-train-station-

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 23, 2025


a: glycolysis ~
b: water-rushing-down-a-white-water-canyon

Writer: Penel --Date: June 23, 2025

a: glycolysis ~
b: a-gumball-machine-in-the-cytoplasm

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 23, 2025

a: glycolysis ~
b: kindling

Writer: Rugby Strength Coach --Date: June 23, 2025


a: glycolysis ~
b: investing-money-to-make-more-money

Writer: Robin Francis Tillman --Date: June 23, 2025

a: a-functional-group ~
b: the-arms-and-legs-on-the-molecule

Writer: Not known --Date: June 22, 2025

a: the-dolphin ~
b: a-needle-piercing-barriers

Writer: Dolphin therapy --Date: June 22, 2025


a: gaslighting ~
b: frog-in-a-pot-of-warm-water

Writer: Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S --Date: June 21, 2025

a: the-telomere ~
b: a-cellular-clock

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 20, 2025

a: holy-spirit ~
b: a-man-with-a-lamp

Writer: Ian Thomas --Date: June 19, 2025


a: heat ~
b: the-amount-of-water-in-a-towel

Writer: Feynman --Date: June 18, 2025

a: obesity ~
b: contagious-disease

Writer: Heather Leeson --Date: June 18, 2025

a: genomics ~
b: molecular-biology-gone-post-modern

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 18, 2025


a: cholesterol-micelle ~
b: ball-of-peanut-butter-coated-with-jelly

Writer: Lucretia --Date: June 18, 2025

a: wisdom ~
b: physical-fitness

Writer: Arko Sen --Date: June 17, 2025

a: ambition ~
b: water

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 16, 2025


a: myosin ~
b: an-oar-in-the-water

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 15, 2025

a: myosin ~
b: golf-club

Writer: Peter G. Bursztyn --Date: June 15, 2025

a: crispr ~
b: a-cursor

Writer: EMILY WALTZ --Date: June 13, 2025


a: good-communication ~
b: a-tennis-game

Writer: Edward Leigh, MA --Date: June 11, 2025

a: ambition ~
b: water

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 11, 2025

a: voltage ~
b: the-height-of-the-stream

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 11, 2025


a: acceptance ~
b: bitter-gourd

Writer: Kate --Date: June 10, 2025

a: nervous-system ~
b: tree

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 10, 2025

a: agriculture ~
b: ship-without-a-rudder

Writer: Craig Sweger --Date: June 9, 2025


a: igneous-rock ~
b: ice-cube

Writer: Professor Martha Schoene --Date: June 9, 2025

a: nervous-system ~
b: two-sets-of-one-way-streets

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 9, 2025

a: mendocino-county ~
b: the-napa-of-marijuana

Writer: Laura Bly, USA TODAY --Date: June 8, 2025


a: dopamine ~
b: a-sparkplug

Writer: Paul Fraumeni --Date: June 7, 2025

a: math ~
b: cartoonists

Writer: Kalid Azad --Date: June 7, 2025

a: poetry ~
b: logic

Writer: James Gassser --Date: June 7, 2025


a: photon ~
b: particle

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 6, 2025

a: bohr-model ~
b: the-solar-system-model

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 5, 2025

a: photography ~
b: writing

Writer: Mike Johnston --Date: June 5, 2025


a: bone ~
b: reinforced-concrete

Writer: James S. Trefil --Date: June 3, 2025

a: dna-synthesis ~
b: a-card-punch-to-originate-a-file

Writer: Not Stated --Date: June 3, 2025

a: holy-spirit ~
b: deep-sea-diver

Writer: Keith Krell --Date: June 2, 2025


a: lipid-bilayer ~
b: a-sandwich

Writer: David H. Nguyen --Date: June 2, 2025

a: dna ~
b: a-twisted-ladder

Writer: James Watson --Date: June 1, 2025

a: photosynthesis ~
b: packing-a-lunch-to-eat-later

Writer: Rene Fester Kratz et al. --Date: May 31, 2025


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